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The letter charged that Trump would “make America less safe” and was “utterly unfitted to the office.” Trump avoided the draft, but called his sex life in the 1980s “my personal Vietnam.” Citing his fear of sexually transmitted diseases, he said, "I feel like a great and very brave soldier.”
Despite that fascination, Trump took multiple deferments to avoid service in the Vietnam War. When he became president, Trump staffed his cabinet with senior generals.
Conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh reportedly avoided the Vietnam draft because of anal cysts. In a 2011 book critical of Limbaugh, journalist John K. Wlson wrote, "As a man who evaded the Vietnam War draft with the help of an anal cyst, Limbaugh is a chickenhawk fond of making hyperbolic attacks on [liberal] foreign policy". [90]
A biographer of Trump said the president once showed him the bone spurs that got him out of the draft, but he "didn't see" any evidence of them.
And while Barack Obama was just 12 years old when the Vietnam War draft ended, Donald Trump received four student deferments and a medical-leave deferment for bone spurs to avoid fighting in Vietnam.
Similarly, the Vietnam-era National Guard was seen by some as an avenue for avoiding combat in Vietnam, [117] although that too was less than foolproof: about 15,000 National Guardsmen were sent to Vietnam before the war began winding down. [117] Phil Ochs (1940–1976) was one of several countercultural figures to encourage draft evasion.
Some added that comparing Trump’s supporters to soldiers from any country wasn’t ideal, given Trump himself repeatedly avoided the draft for the Vietnam War.Some of the criticism came from ...
The number of soldiers reportedly recruited through the program varies, from more than 320,000 [9] to 354,000, which included both voluntary enlistees and draftees (54% and 46%, respectively). [3] Entrance requirements were loosened, but all the Project 100,000 men were sent through normal training programs with other recruits, and performance ...